Question

A selection of staff wages is collected and shown below.

£254
£254
£310
£276
£116
£90
£312
£180
£180
£536
£350
£243
£221
£165
£239
£700

What is the mode of staff wages?

Answer 1

Mode of staff wages = £180

, and £254

Explanation:

Points to remember

Mode of a data set is the most repeating item in the given data set.

To find the mode of staff wages

The given data set is,

£254, £254, £310, £276, £116, £90, £312, £180, £180, £536, £350, £243, £221, £165, £239, £700

Ascending order of data set

£90, £116, £165, £180, £180, £221, £239, £243, £254, ,£254, £276, £310, £312, £350, £536, £700

Most repeating data = £180 , and £254

Mode of staff wages = £180 , and £254

Answer 2

254 and 180

Explanation:

First of all we will define mode

"A mode is the most frequent value in the data"

In order to find mode the data is observed and the data value with most number of occurrence is called mode.

A data set can have more than one modes.

So in the given data,

The repeated data values are:

254 = two times

180 = two times

So the modes are 254 and 180 ..